Crossword-Solution: GERENUK 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Game was increasing, and that night they located another drinking-place half a mile up the drift, where the boys bagged three gerenuk, a kind of gazelle, and two wildebeest.

The dibatag or Clarke's gazelle (_Ammodorcas clarkei_), of Somaliland, forms a kind of connecting link between the true gazelles and the gerenuk, this being especially shown in the skull.

The East African gerenuk (q.v.), or Waller's gazelle (_Lithocranius walleri_), of which two races have been named, is a very remarkable ruminant, distinguished not only by its exceedingly elongated neck and limbs, but also by the peculiar hooked form of the very massive horns of the bucks, the dense structure and straight profile of the skull, and the extreme slenderness of the lower jaw.

With it I have shot some three hundred head of all kinds, including the following: Lion, hyena, elephant, rhinoceros (square-mouthed and hook-nosed), hippopotamus, zebras of two kinds, wart-hog, giraffe, giant eland, common eland, roan antelope, oryx, wildebeest, topi, white-withered lechwe, waterbucks, hartebeests, kobs, impalla, gerenuk, gazelles, reedbucks, bushbucks, klipspringer, oribis, duikers, steinbok, dikdik, monkeys.

GERENUK, the Somali name of a long-necked aberrant gazelle, commonly known as Waller's gazelle (_Lithocranius walleri_), and ranging from Somaliland to Kilimanjaro.